Peace Education
UPF organizes seminars and conferences that present core values and universal principles of peacebuilding.
- Written by: Sérgio Vieira, president, UPF-Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal—UPF co-sponsored a significant event to commemorate World Refugee Day 2021.
- Written by: Maria Pammer, UPF-Austria; Stefan Schmid, UPF-Germany; and Dr. Juraj Lajda, UPF-Czech Republic
Central Europe—"Peace Road" participants from Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany met atop a hill where their borders converge.
- Written by: Dr. William Selig, director of communications, UPF International
Yekaterinburg, Russia—Webinar participants were moved by the project’s peacemaking potential.
- Written by: UPF-Argentina
Argentina—UPF-Argentina launched its 2021 “Leadership and Cooperation” series on June 16, 2021, with a speech by Christian Oreb, general coordinator of Red Cooperar Buenos Aires.
- Written by: UPF-Israel
Acre, Israel—UPF held a special interfaith meeting to counter the distrust between communities.
- Written by: Félix Coronel Fariña, Secretary General, UPF-Paraguay, and Miguel Werner, President, UPF-Argentina
South America—“Environment and Sustainability” was the title of the Leda Project presentation in an online meeting organized by UPF-Latin America (Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile) on June 8, 2021.
- Written by: Dmitry Samko, chairman, UPF-Moscow
Moscow, Russia—The UPF event discussed ways to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Written by: UPF-Italy
Italy—The newest issue of Italy's Voices of Peace was focused on the “Reconciliation between the Two Koreas.”
- Written by: Dr. Robert Kittel, co-chair, UPF-Asia Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand—UPF held a virtual Asia Pacific Leadership Conference at the start of 2021, which had 37 graduates from 14 nations.
- Written by: UPF-Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal—UPF-Nepal appointed a new district peace council coordinator for Sunsari district in Province No. 1.
- Written by: Dr. Robert Kittel
Bangkok, Thailand—More than 400 participants registered for two UPF-Asia Pacific online education programs, which were rated highly by graduates.
- Written by: UPF-Argentina
Argentina—"One Argentina Through Peace” was the theme of the sixth edition of Peace Road.